Tch Video: Subtraction as a Confidence Builder (13:49) While you watch this video, take notes on approaches your find interesting. How do they reinforce the SMP? The end of the video shows how the teachers get together to discuss student work and also how they communicate mathematics between the grade levels. Do you think that this improves student learning? What structures in your school could help facilitate this type of communication between teachers and also communication about student work?

Division by Chunking powerpoint How does this powerpoint reinforce the idea that multiplication and division are inverse operations? Compare this approach to the ideas for subtraction by using addition in the “Subtraction as a Confidence Builder” video. How would you use it to teach division problems that did not work out evenly? (with remainders). How could you reinforce this idea with an area model?

Videos

Go to 2:18 in video Daily 10 minute Practice on Math Facts Check out system she uses for facts. 25 problems in 75 seconds. If they finish, she takes them up. If they don’t finish, they erase transparency and try next day. Each student is self-paced.